Saturday, May 25, 2013

Happy Memorial Day weekend to everyone in the US!!! Today's card is for CAS-ual Fridays challenge in honor of Memorial Day, remembering and honoring those who have lost their lives defending our great country. And let's not forget the families who miss them dearly. I would like to extend a sincere thank you to all the military families who make sacrifices daily for us.

Thank you for visiting and have a great weekend. We are supposed to have a rainy weekend here in Northern NH but that just means more time inside creating. :)Cardstock: Whisper White, Real Red, Pacific PointInk: True Black (PTI)Stamps: Hero Arts setAccessories: Star Gazer die (PTI)

Friday, May 24, 2013

Hi friends. Today's card was inspired by the Runway challenge. Here is the inspiration photo:

I pulled my inspiration from her sweater with the fun triangles. I used one of the triangles in Trendy Triangles from Fresh Squeezed Stamps. I stamped onto Confetti white cardstock in Blushing Bride and Basic Gray. The ribbon reminded me of her balloony pants. :)

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Hi friends. My card today is for Merry Monday challenge. I have been missing the past few challenges and wanted to keep up with my Christmas cards. I am happy to report that with this card I have made 70 out of my 150 Christmas cards.

This card uses the Bargello technique and also the fun sequins that I am seeing everywhere. Here is the sketch:

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Happy Saturday friends. My card for today is for CAS(E) this sketch challenge. This is my first time playing with these images from Bold Wishes (CAS-ual Fridays Stamps). It is hard to tell in the photo, but Wish Big is embossed using Cherry Cobbler embossing powder. Here is the sketch:

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Hi friends. I wanted to share my OLC for today. I used the colors from The Paper Players and I also used the sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch. Unfortunately, I am too late to enter in that challenge but that is ok. Here are the colors and the sketch:

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Hi friends. I am sharing my card today for Retro Sketches, Addicted to CAS, & CASology. I love hexagons, so I just had to play along with Casology's cue word: Hexagon. I used Trendy Triangles from FSS to create the rainbow hexagon. I then die cut a hexagon out of the white and adhered it on dimensionals over the stamped image. It only took me a couple of practice tries to get the triangles stamped just right. :) Here is the sketch for Retro Sketches:

Saturday, May 4, 2013

Hi friends. I am sharing today's card for The Play Date Cafe challenge and CAS(E) this Sketch. I used the partial die cutting technique on my hello and also used Raspberry Ripple but embossed with clear embossing powder and it made it darker. That was supposed to be my splash of Magenta but it now looks like a splash of burgandy. :(

Friday, May 3, 2013

Hi friends. I am a little behind on my homework. Just finished up with day 4 where we were to make Mother's and Father's Day cards. I used the partial die cutting technique for my cards. Here they are:

Mom's:

Dad's:

I just couldn't bring myself to add anything more to the Dad card. :) I hope you all have a wonderful weekend. Thank you for visiting and thank you for all your wonderful comments. I appreciate them and you!!!

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

I used Cristina's technique of coloring vellum. She colored her vellum with Copics and I have not got on that band wagon (yet). I colored my vellum with Stampin' Up! markers and it seemed to work fine. I am thinking now, looking at these cards I could have duplicated the Her card into a His card by just changing the colored vellum. Hmmm! I think the sentiment on the Her card would work ok for a male card as well. It is not too fancy. I would just change out the gold sequins for something different.